Savchenko expected to return to Ukraine "within hours"

The plane with Savchenko took off for Kyiv.

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Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko who has been illegally convicted in Russia may return to Ukraine this afternoon.

The presidential aircraft carrying Nadiya Savchenko will depart from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, simultaneously with another aircraft, which will carry Russian intelligence officers Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeev, who have been pardoned by President Petro Poroshenko.

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